ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad, CMC – A career-best spell from leg-spinner Javed Leacock topped a blistering 94 from Chadwick Walton, and Barbados Satisfaction beat defending champions Jamaica Scorpions by 47 runs within the West Indies Super50 Cup on Friday in Trinidad.
Leacock, enjoying solely his sixth Record “A” match, grabbed 4 for 43 from eight overs, and the Scorpions, chasing 259 to win, had been bowled out for 211 in 44.3 overs within the sixth match of the 50 overs-a-side match on the Frank Worrell Area.
Walton smashed six fours and 6 sixes from 112 balls to steer the Scorpions batting, Jeavor Royal had a late flourish of 44 from 34 balls, and West Indies Check vice-captain Jermaine Blackwood made a resilient 30, however no different batter reached double figures.
Left-arm pacer Dominic Drakes, son of Satisfaction head coach Vasbert Drakes, the previous West Indies all-rounder, took two for 14 from 3.3 overs, and Roston Chase supported with two for 37 from eight overs to maintain issues regular in the midst of the Scorpions chase.
The outcome gave the Satisfaction, crushed semi-finalists final yr, a profitable begin to the match. Nonetheless, it condemned the Scorpions to a rock star to their protection, as they slid to their second defeat of their first two matches after Leeward Islands Hurricanes humbled them by eight wickets in a low-scoring contest two days earlier on the Brian Lara Cricket Academy.
Drakes made the breakthrough for Satisfaction when he obtained left-handed opener Kirk McKenzie caught at mid-off for 3 within the fourth over, however Blackwood joined Walton, they usually made positive the Scorpions didn’t lose one other wicket within the Energy Play to achieve 60 for one after ten overs.
Chase struck in his fourth and sixth overs to take away Blackwood, caught at mid-wicket, and Andre McCarthy, an previous nemesis of the Satisfaction, seen at long-on for 9, and Scorpions stumbled to 109 for 3 on the midway stage.
The Satisfaction bowlers – particularly Chase, Kyle Mayers, and left-arm Raymon Reifer – continued to bowl steadily, and three wickets – two to Leacock – fell within the leg-spinner’s first over.
Nkrumah Bonner was run out for 9 off his first ball in a nasty mix-up with Walton earlier than Leacock exploited the susceptibility of Scorpions and West Indies Twenty20 Worldwide captain Rovman Powell to leg-spin and obtained him caught at slip for a first-ball duck and trapped newcomer Shalome Parnell lbw for a fourth-ball duck.
Leacock caught Fabian Allen at slip for 2 within the thirty third over, and the Scorpions slumped to 125 for seven.
This was a sign to assault for Walton, whose 50 got here from 52 balls, and he helped to spoil the figures of Chase and Leacock with a beautiful array of strokes within the firm of Royal, they usually placed on 53 for the seventh wicket to provide the Scorpions a sniff of a come-from-behind win.
Scorpions entered the ultimate ten overs needing 81 to win, however Leacock foiled their plans for a dramatic end when he obtained Walton caught at long-on within the forty first over.
Earlier, half-centuries from Shamarh Brooks and Satisfaction and West Indies One-day Worldwide captain Shai Hope helped their aspect attain 258 for six after they had been despatched into bat.
Brooks struck three fours and one six in 69 from 89 balls, and Hope supported with 65 from 76 balls, together with 4 fours and one six.
They added 88 for the third wicket after West Indies Check captain Kraigg Brathwaite made 45, and he, too, placed on 88 for the second wicket with Brooks after Parnell obtained left-handed opener Kyle Mayers caught behind for one.
When Hope was caught behind off pacer Nicholson Gordon within the forty fifth over, Satisfaction had been 202 for 4, however Drakes got here to the crease and beefed up the entire with two fours and three sixes in 40 not out off solely 18 balls.
Parnell and Gordon each ended with two wickets for the Scorpions.
The match continues with a doubleheader on Saturday when the Leeward Islands face West Indies Academy at Queen’s Park Oval in a contest beginning at 9 a.m. (East Caribbean Time), and Guyana Harpy Eagles meet hosts Trinidad & Tobago Purple Power on the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in a day-night contest beginning at 1 p.m. (EC Time).
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